The Competency Crisis Proliferating The West

An essayist and military strategist, Aurelien , has written a paper entitled: The Strange Defeat .

The “strange defeat” being that of Europe ’s “curious” inability to understand Ukraine or its military mechanics.

The writer continues in some detail (omitted here) to explain why NATO has no strategy for Ukraine and no real operational plan.

US writer David Samuels suggests the roots of the 'competency crisis in US politics.

He says the Obama White House was able to sell policy and reconfigure social attitudes and prejudices in entirely new ways.

Obama used tools of the digital age to craft an entirely new type of power centre for himself one revolved around his unique position as the titular head of a Democratic Party .

David Samuels' account amounts to a stark warning of the danger associated with distance opening up between an underlying reality and an invented reality that could be successfully messaged, and managed, from the White House .

“This possibility opened the door to a new potential for a large-scale disaster like the war in Iraq ’s Iraq ”, he says.